Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [art] [noun pl] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The goals of the party were now , he said , " a united democratic Europe based on civil and social rights " , bringing together the values of liberty and equality . |
| 2 | Thus , methods of drawing together the components of care were developed , especially in federally funded initiatives such as the Community Support Program . |
| 3 | Commenting on the grant , Alex Wright of the Commission said , ‘ We welcome this grant and we hope it will assist Lancashire County Council in opening up the rights of way network by dealing with several major problems and paths that need modifications . ’ |
| 4 | O saving victim , opening wide the gates of heaven … |
| 5 | Does he agree that that would give parents an objective answer to the question , ’ How is my child 's school doing ? ’ , as well as further pressing back the frontiers of choice in education ? |
| 6 | We are ruling out no possibilities of course , but the evidence suggests the crime was committed by a club resident . ’ |
| 7 | The second innovation can come , in this post ERA environment , by a steady reformulation of management systems and structures within schools and colleges — a version of flat topping , of stripping out the layers of management and the filters through which messages can be confused and made more complex . |
| 8 | [ The DHAC ] regarded the Corporation as representing primarily the interests of property owners and business speculators and not the interests of the working class of Derry . |
| 9 | For some reason I thought of President Kennedy , bounding down the corridors of power , forever chasing the flick of a skirt , the back of a knee , the glorious in pursuit of the grateful . |
| 10 | For creative partner , Steve Henry , pushing aside the frontiers of advertising suited his agency and the people in it . |
| 11 | The prospects may therefore be good for a long-term strategy which aims at both restricting the scale of most operating units and granting them a reasonable degree of operational autonomy in order to make participative democracy a feasible proposition , while developing further the economies of administration , co-ordination , etc. which are at present realised by large-scale enterprises . |
| 12 | In New Zealand 's ’ King Country' — so called because of the Maori kings who fought a guerrilla war against the settling English — Maori lads fresh from rounding up the droves of merino sheep from the bush clad hills would have a night out in the one horse town and go to the fleapit . |
| 13 | Since the problem is that of the blood vessels dilating and constricting due to lack of oestrogen , topping up the levels of oestrogen ( the essence of HRT ) causes the flushes to lessen within days , before disappearing . |
| 14 | Their achievement was in pushing back the frontiers of distance running with world records . |
| 15 | Says Dent : ‘ The plastics industry has a tradition of pushing back the frontiers of technology . |
| 16 | While we believe that it is important to continue researching and improving existing products , we also devote more than 50 per cent of our Research and Development resource to developing new products , pushing back the frontiers of technology . |
| 17 | We are dedicated to experimentation , to pushing back the frontiers of football as we know them , to boldly go where no self-respecting soccer club has gone before , and no , I do not mean the Whaddon and Mitchley Sunday League . |
| 18 | A second hour went by , while little by little I abandoned hope first of one bus connection , and then of another , until there were footsteps and a small thin man hurried in , pushing back the strands of hair which had plastered themselves across his forehead . |
| 19 | They were moved by their own flesh and blood acting out the motions of birth and parentage with that mixture of awkwardness , ignorance , seriousness and imitation which can be observed in the necessary games of mothers and fathers . |
| 20 | The confidence and effectiveness of individuals in acting out the roles of magistrate , priest or sovereign are enhanced by the esteem in which the precious substances embodied in the symbols of their offices are held in society at large ( Plate K ) . |
| 21 | His eyes , peering down the corridors of memory , began to sharpen with recollection . |
| 22 | Organisations such as Gamblers Anonymous concern themselves with piecing together the casualties of addiction . |
| 23 | The window was full of magazines , lying edge to edge and hanging in yellowed cellophane wrappers from clothes-pegs : she was reminded of playing shop as a child , and lining up the tins of food and boxes of soap flakes and bags of flour , all in miniature . |
| 24 | You are also turning up the relics of perennial weeds that can be difficult to eliminate later . |
| 25 | Shelton has an enormous emotional range but here she showed restraint , as though choking back the extremes of expression with which these dark poems ripple . |
| 26 | But Louis was prepared to take a much tougher line with the count of Nevers to resolve his dispute with the abbey of Vézelay : although relatives of the count were allowed to participate in drawing up the terms of settlement , Louis insisted that , if it failed , further aggression against the abbey would be treated as aggression against the king and punished accordingly . |
| 27 | By contrast Marx and Engels saw the proletariat 's mission as breaking down the restrictions of capitalism which held back the full development of technology ; and they rejected as utopian any form of transition to socialism which was not brought about by a genuine ( and almost certainly violent ) social revolution . |
| 28 | For these reasons it is worth considering carefully the kinds of approach to assessment that are currently available , and examining ways of improving these . |
| 29 | just breaking up the pieces of stone . |
| 30 | During a drunken scene from Alex Cox 's Straight To Hell , you can see Joe Strummer kicking a tin can and calling out the names of footie players such as David Speedle , Pat Nevin and Kerry Dixon . |